Love is pure, love is painful, love is sweet and love is dreadful. True love is overwhelming. Our lives depend on it and it often seems like our planet would stop spinning if love didn’t exist. Love is something we strive for and something we mourn the loss of.

A lovesick once said that “if you’ve never been hurt, you’re either very lucky, or very lonely”.

Here are 18 Interesting Facts About Love


1. It only takes up to 4 minutes to decide whether you like someone or not
If you want to make a good impression on someone, you’ve only got about
4 minutes to do it. It is believed far more to do with your body language,
tone and speed of your voice rather than exactly what you say.


2. When Two Lovers Gaze At Each Others’ Eyes, Their Heart Rates Synchronize
couples who are in love and bond in a romantic relationship
synchronize their heart rates after gazing into each others’ eyes for
three minutes.


3. Falling In Love Has Neurological Effects Similar To Those Of Cocaine
Falling in love is much like taking a dose of cocaine, as both
experiences trigger a similar sensation
of euphoria- producing inducing chemicals that stimulate 12
areas of the brain at the same time.


4. Cuddling Releases Natural Painkillers
Oxytocin, the so-called love or cuddle hormone, is produced during an
embrace or cuddle. The hormone appears in the brain, ovaries and
testicles and is thought to be involved in the bonding process. Research has
found that a dose of oxytocin decreases headaches significantly, and for
some it even makes the pain go away completely after 4 hours. It’s
definitely worth trying hug and cuddle medicine before jumping to
chemicals and pills.


5. Even Looking At A Picture Of A Loved One Relieves The Pain
Even though it was long known that the presence of a significant other
has a lot to do with patients’ improvement, it has been proved that the
same goes for even a picture of the beloved.


6. Holding A Loved One’s Hand Relieves Pain And Stress
Research shows that long-term couples with deep, strong connections can
successfully soothe each other in stressful situations or when one of
them experiences pain simply by holding hands.


7. People At The Same Level Of Attractiveness Are More Likely To End
Up Together
Many psychological and social research indicates that there is a
significant pattern in how people choose people to establish romantic
relationships with. This pattern is explained by the Matching Hypothesis
which says that people are more attracted to those that they share a
level of attractiveness with, or, in other words, are equally socially
desirable. Even if successful couples differ in physical attractiveness,
one of them usually compensates for it with other socially desirable
qualities.


8.Couples Who Are Too Similar To Each Other Are not Likely To Last
As the well-known saying goes, opposites attract. And research
proves that this is partially true. Couples that are either too similar or too
different tend not to last very long. Apparently, there always has to be
a foundation of similarities, but there also have to be things that the
two of you learn from each other.


9. Heartbreak Is Not Just A Metaphor
Research has provided evidence that intense, traumatizing events, such
as a break-up, divorce, loss of a loved one, physical separation from a
loved one, or betrayal can cause real physical pains in the area of
one’s heart. This condition is called the Broken Heart Syndrome
Deep emotional distress triggers the brain to distribute certain
chemicals that significantly weaken one’s heart, leading to strong chest
pains and shortness of breath. The condition is often misdiagnosed as
heart attack and tends to affect women more often.


10. Romantic Love Eventually Ends…Only To Be Followed By Committed Love
Couples at the very beginning of a romantic relationship will be very
different a year later. It is estimated
that romantic love,
which is linked with euphoria, dependence, sweaty palms, butterflies and
alike, only lasts about a year. After that first year begins the
so-called “committed love” stage. The transition is linked with elevated
neurotrophin protein levels in newly formed couples.


11. People Who Are In Love Have Chemical Similarities With People With OCD
studies show that people at an early stage of love have lower levels of serotonin,
which is associated with feelings of happiness and well-being, and
higher levels of cortisol, associated with stress. This is strikingly
similar to those people who have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, which
explains why we act so out of character when we fall for someone. It
works the other way around as well – people with lower levels of
serotonin fall in love and get into sexual relationships quicker than
others.


12. Thinking Of Love And Sex Influences Creativity And Concrete
Thinking, Respectively
construal level theory found out that reminders of love influence more
abstract and creative thinking because
they are associated with more distant and abstract considerations –
long-term relationships, devotion, commitment and intimacy.
Reminders of
sex trigger concrete thinking, making a person focus more on momentary
details than on long-term plans or goals.


13. Attachment + Caring + Intimacy = Perfect Love
The triangular theory of love suggest
a clear formula for the components of different kinds of love. There are
three kinds of love that are a product of two different pairs of basic
components: romantic love = passion + intimacy, companionate love =
intimacy + commitment, and fatuous love = passion + commitment. Of
course, the truest and strongest of all is consummate love, which
consists of all three components.


14. An Attractive Face Is Preferred Over An Attractive Body For
Long-Term Relationships
There’s evidence
that when looking for a fling, the body wins over the face on a physical
attraction basis. The opposite is true, however, for those who are
looking for a long-term relationship partner.


15. Butterflies In The Stomach Are Real And They’re Actually Caused
by Adrenaline
When you fall for someone you probably won’t be able to avoid the
butterflies
flying, dancing and fooling around in your stomach. They’re caused by
adrenaline, which floods your body during /flight-or-fight/ response
situations.


16. Dilated Pupils Show Your Attraction To Someone And Makes You
More Attractive
As early as the 1870s, Darwin proposed that pupils expand during
heightened attention and focus. This is indeed true, as this occurs when
gazing at an object of desire or beloved one, even if it‘s only a
picture or a video. Moreover, people with dilated pupils themselves look
more attractive.


17. Looking Into Each Others’ Eyes Can Make Strangers Fall In Love
The eyes are the mirrors of our souls, as they say, so there’s probably
no surprise that simply looking into each others’ eyes can make us fall
for each other, even if we don’t know jack about each other. It has been
proven that when
someone is gazing at you, the person’s body produces a chemical
called phenylethylamine, which is associated with the /fight-or-flight/
response. So if you decide to continue looking at each other, you’re
asking for Cupid’s arrow.


18. Love Is Really All That Matters
A marvelous 75-year long study
which was conducted by a group of Harvard researchers, has shown that
love is really all that matters. The participants’ lifelong experiences
revealed that happiness and life fulfillment revolved around love or
simply searching for love.

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Hmmm this is intresting. Nyc one op